We have an acrostic God

The psalmist's skillful and playful use of the alphabet teaches us a lot about God.

Several fifth graders in the Ogle Elementary School in McKinney, Texas, belong to the Lost Planet book club which is a function of the school's library. Last February, after reading the sci-fi novel The Lost Planet (by Rachel Searles), the kids had fun summarizing it using two apps.

Working on computers in the school library, they employed a breaking news generator app to come up with screen shots. They found images such as an exploding planet captioned with headlines like "Galactic News: Planet Trucon Bursts" and "Trucon Invaded, Trucon Has Been Deliberately Attacked by Federal Fleet."

Then, using an acrostic poem generator app, they selected key words from the story and wrote a series of statements about that word — one each beginning with the letters of that word, in order. For example, one student came up with this, using the word EARTH:

Every 24 hours it is night and day
Atmosphere protects us
Rotates on its axis
Temperature differs in different climates
Has northern and southern...